At head of title: The Rita and William H. Bell Professorship in Anglican and Ecumenical Studies.
"[By] The Rt. Revd. Lord Robert Runcie of Cuddesdon, 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury".
Public Lecture, the University of Tulsa, April 8, 1991".
"The title I have given to this lecture is 'Christian Thinking : the Anglican vocation of thoughtful holiness'. I want to argue in a very particular, and I believe, Anglican way. I wish to look at a number of individuals who seem to me to have embodied this tradition of thoughtful holiness. .... So I will take five people. Each of them are Anglicans. I think they have something special to give to the universal Church. And yet, frankly, I could not imagine any of them not being Anglicans" (p. 2).
Contents: Christian Thinking: The Anglican Tradition of Thoughtful Holiness -- The Rt. Revd. the Lord Robert Runcie of Cuddesdon [biographical note].
Brief note re "Bell Professorship in Anglican and Ecumenical Studies" on inside front cover.
Series
Bell Distinguished Visiting Professorship and Lecture series ; 2
"First published 2005 in the UK by SCM Press. This edition published 2006 in the United States of America by Wm. B. Eerdmans". -- verso of t.-p.
Includes bibliographical references.
"`We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the word of God,' Dietrich Bonhoeffer once said. While a lot of ink is spilled debating the place of homosexual Christians in the life of the church, few people take Bonhoeffer's advice. In `Face to Face' Jeffrey Heskins takes a step back from heated rhetoric to listen to Christians who are committed both to ordained ministry in the Anglican Church and to a life of holiness with a partner of the same sex. As Heskins invites these couples to tell their stories and reflects on their experiences, he raises difficult questions: What does it mean to live a `holy life' ? Should the pattern for `holy living' be any different for gay and lesbian couples in ministry than for others ? Based on more than thirty hours of recorded interviews with couples all across England, this volume heeds Bonhoeffer's words, producing a refreshing instance of Christian hospitality -- listening to brothers and sisters before presuming to speak God's word to them. While `Face to Face' will not end the controversy, these human voices will speak to both sides of this explosive debate". -- back cover.
Contents: Introduction dated St. Lukestide [18 October] 2004 -- Who do you think you are ? -- We had the experience but missed the meaning -- To have and to hold from this day -- For better or worse -- In sickness, health and death -- According to God's Holy Law -- And this is my solemn vow -- Face to face.
"A saint, we can say, is someone who knows themselves in God, someone deeply conscious of the truth that, through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, our very humanity can bear the holy. What then is holiness ? .... Holiness is not something one owns or achieves. It is a fullness of life, a human transparency to the life and love of God. Saints are people who have encountered/been encountered by the living God and have chosen to live with Christ, and in Christ, with a particular intensity that opens up the reality of God in real and living ways for other people. The former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams describes a saint as someone who 'starts a chain reaction of new perception in the world, who reinforces, even among those who don't or can't yet believe, the confidence that there's more to us than we had expected' ('Uncommon Gratitude'; Liturgical Press, 2012, p. 68)".
Author "is rector of St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church in Oak Bay, B.C".
Contents: Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / David Hutt -- Towards Catholicity : Naming and Living the Mystery / Frank T. Griswold -- Foundations of an Anglican Ecclesiology / Stephen Sykes -- The Content of the Catholic Faith / Jeffrey John -- Catholic Persons : Images of Holiness : A Dialogue / Rowan Williams and Philip Sheldrake -- Holy Stardust / Angela Tilby -- Catholicism in the Future : A Dialogue / David Jenkins and Lavinia Byrne -- Forward in Faith / Richard Holloway -- Sermon given in York Minster, 5 September 1993 / Frank T. Griswold -- Note on Affirming Catholicism.
Contents: Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / David Hutt -- Towards Catholicity : Naming and Living the Mystery / Frank T. Griswold -- Foundations of an Anglican Ecclesiology / Stephen Sykes -- The Content of the Catholic Faith / Jeffrey John -- Catholic Persons : Images of Holiness : A Dialogue / Rowan Williams and Philip Sheldrake -- Holy Stardust / Angela Tilby -- Catholicism in the Future : A Dialogue / David Jenkins and Lavinia Byrne -- Forward in Faith / Richard Holloway -- Sermon given in York Minster, 5 September 1993 / Frank T. Griswold -- Note on Affirming Catholicism.
"Dr. David Ousley, the author of this study and of its predecessor 'The Way of Holiness, part 1: Principles' (Latimer Studies 43), is rector of St. James the Less Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. The chapters which they comprise appeared originally as separate papers in the author's series 'Pilgrimage: a Newsletter of Christian Spirituality', a series which continues and appears six times a year". -- p. [2].